Category Archives: Canadian Press

FRANKFURT - German industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said Tuesday it has agreed to merge its train-building business with French rival Alstom, creating a “new European champion” in the...

CARSON CITY, Nev. - Nevada’s parole board says it didn’t consider O.J. Simpson’s 1989 conviction for misdemeanour spousal abuse when it granted his release because it wasn’t li...

LOS ANGELES - “Saturday Night Live” is adding three new cast members for its new season. NBC said Tuesday that the trio will join the show when it returns Saturday for its 43rd season. The...

YANGON, Myanmar - At least 163 people have been killed and 91 others have gone missing over the past year in attacks carried out by Rohingya Muslim militants in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, ...

JOHANNESBURG - Hundreds of vultures in Namibia died after feeding on an elephant carcass that poachers had poisoned. Poachers in Zimbabwe used cyanide to kill dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks...

YANGON, Myanmar - Thousands of cows and goats grazed in abandoned fields and wandered through charred-out Rohingya Muslim villages after a military crackdown sent nearly a half-million members of Myan...

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee and a political force on financial issues, announced Tuesday that he would not seek re-el...

BOSTON - Michelle Obama has some tough words for women who didn’t vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, saying they “voted against their own voice.” Bo...

LONDON - Kit Harington and his former “Game of Thrones” on-screen romantic partner, Rose Leslie, are engaged. A formal notice published in the Times of London newspaper Wednesday announced...

HENRICO, Va. - A pot-bellied pig that had been on the loose for weeks in a Virginia neighbourhood has been nabbed by police. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the pig had become a familiar sigh...